Reviews for Wayback Machine
Wayback Machine by Internet Archive
328 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14709676, 6 years agoThe bug of March 2019 that triggers it on about 30% of times I try to go back one page (on regular, live, working URLs) needs to be fixed...
Else very useful since so many websites (especially universities and governments!) can't seem to understand the concept of a stable URL! - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 12145106, 6 years agoIt currently has a bug that causes it to trigger sometimes when I click the back button. I just visited the page a minute ago, it works fine when the addon is disabled, and my internet connection is fast, so I don't think it's a problem with the site.
However, apart from the bug, this is indicative of a problem with the addon design, which is that it redirects to a different page, and offers no option to exit out of the addon or try to load the original page even if the Wayback Machine addon thinks it's broken. It's okay for the addon to make mistakes, it's not okay for me to need to disable it in order to load the original page. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13174997, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12897281, 6 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 14540481, 6 years agoToo aggressive when sites don't load immediately. It was nice the one time the site actually was down, but not the fifty other times my internet just was slow.
- Rated 2 out of 5by hellocatfood, 6 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by ꜱᴩʀɪᴛᴇ➀, 6 years agoIt keeps taking over pages even if they do load. I end up having to click on the back button mltiple times because it keeps insisting that the page is missing when I can see it perfectly fine before it redirects it half a second later.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13076720, 6 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by bharatgkmsrgroup, 6 years agoIt will be better if this extension have a auto show option
- Rated 3 out of 5by Rory O’Kane, 6 years agoThis extension worked great for a long time, only showing the 404 detected popup when I actually encountered a missing page. However, I recently updated from Firefox 56 to Firefox 63 (which may have updated the extension too), and that caused the extension to start detecting spurious 404s, as other reviews describe. When this extension works, it is a convenient way to open the WayBack Machine, but I’m going to have to disable the extension for now until it gets fixed.
On older Firefox versions I used to use the add-on Resurrect Pages by Anthony Lieuallen. I stopped using it because it became incompatible with my Firefox version, but apparently it supports the latest Firefox version again. It may be worth checking out. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13156335, 6 years agoToo damn keen on redirecting working sites - Iv'e disabled it now until it's fixed
- Rated 5 out of 5by mrtimdog, 6 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by lacoL, 6 years agoToo damn aggressive, if it has a pop-over that I can close I would be very happy but to just cause it to move away from the site I'm viewing because an image gives a 404 status is damn right WRONG.
This thing i turned off until it is revisited that it checks for the base path to return a 404 and ignores if the original request returns a status of 200. How damn hard can it be?! - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14272433, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12707512, 6 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Tharwen, 6 years agoIt keeps making it impossible to visit working sites by redirecting me to a page claiming they're dead. There really should be an option to disable the automatic redirection
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 14215346, 6 years agoGreat in principle, but... as plenty of other users have noted, it's way too hasty in execution. I'm continually having to reload perfectly live, current pages because it's jumped in prematurely. As others have also pointed out, it's ludicrous that the obstructive pop-up can't be cancelled – all it needs is a 'Cancel' button.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 14212480, 6 years agoAs a lot of people noted, too eager to display page that will take you to archives. Please, at least make setting that would disable that pop-up. I'm totally fine going into menu and asking for archive page from there if the page doesn't load. What I'm not fine with is when pop-up blocks otherwise working page.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14166395, 6 years agoWorks perfectly, I never found a problem with it and it helped me uncover some deleted pdf files.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 12876347, 6 years agoSometimes overreacts when page loads for a long time. I would prefer to not get modal dialog blocking page that loads correctly.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Kavaeric, 7 years agoSo far it's alright, and it does what it says on the tin. However, it is probably too eager to prompt the user to check the 404 page. On many occasions where the page did load, its modal window pops in my face asking me to check out any archived versions.
Worse still, the popup is a modal window that blocks out the rest of the page and cannot actually be exited out of without reloading the whole page.
Personally, I think it would be fine if there was no pop-up at all. Simply have the user access the toolbar button. - Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 14087118, 7 years agoSeems to overreact with resource loading errors within the page.
This is not really properly tested. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14024434, 7 years agoThis addon absolutely has some use in concept but it takes over pages loading slowly or differently - even fast loading consisten pages on some websites I visit.
I wish it worked, I wish there was a minimum configurable timer, and I wish I could set it to ONLY come up on ACTUAL 404's.
Instead, I'm just going to disable it for now and see if it ever gets better. Sadly it is far more in the way than helpful. - Rated 5 out of 5by Ashhar Hasan (work), 7 years ago